Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

Miguel de Cervantes

• Virtue
• Envy
• Generosity
• Meanness

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• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

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• You can't change the market; the market just is.

  

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• When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

  

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• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

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• I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
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• I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
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• It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Science
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• In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Space
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  • Italy

• I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Political
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• Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

  

  Samantha Mathis
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• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

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• If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.

  

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  • Up
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  • Music

• We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

  

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  • Want

• We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.

  

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  • Could
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  • Gibson

• Rauner stands silent as Trump assaults our basic rights.

  

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• There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
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• Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

• The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

  

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• I don't know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it's fun to watch either one of them get beat up.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Difference
  • Hipster
  • Beat Up

• Envy is a kind of praise.

  

  John Gay
  • Envy

• To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Know
  • Practice

• Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith - It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Woman
  • Ignorance
  • Virtue

• Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Virtue
  • Envy
  • Generosity